LAB | LUISA GARDINI: LABORATORIO DI ATTIVITÀ PER L’INFANZIA / CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP

9 marzo – 25 maggio

Children do not do what they see, but what they know. –G.H. Luquet

The workshop, imagined by Luisa Gardini and promoted by IUNO STUDIO, is designed to enhance the expressive freedom of childhood through the relationship with matter, specifically the manipulation of clay, the use of graphite, and color.

The workshop is not intended to teach artistic technique, on the contrary, it arises from the need to encourage children's language, the result of an innate expression, free from superstructures and prior to any standardization.

The use of authentic communication, not conditioned by visual education, is in fact inversely proportional to the development of verbal and writing skills— the more children acquire the latter, the less they seem to be able to abstract and re-elaborate reality in a personal way. The world begins to stereotype itself through predefined rules and images.

Artworks from the workshop will be collected in an individual folder that will be delivered at the end of the course. The absence of confirmation on the work on the one hand guarantees the development of a totally autonomous language, on the other it pushes the replication of what was done during the time spent in the workshop, encouraging experimentation and familiarization with the materials used.. Parents will be provided with brief indications to choose a suitable material to use at home as well.

Fostering complete freedom of action and vision therefore means trying to preserve one's individuality, the expressive core that characterizes us, instilling a certainty in the practice that is obtained by refraining from aesthetic judgment and opposing the search for approval. For this reason, the participants will be indulged and uneducated in the realization of their works, while avoiding the assumption of potentially intrusive attitudes.

The children will work with clay, graphite, and color starting from concrete experiences of a perceptive, motor, and manipulative type, intended as moments to give space to the imaginary without setting goals aimed at the reproduction of a form.

Wednesday 9 March 16.30 - 17.45
Wednesday 16 March 16.30 - 17.45
Wednesday 23 March 16.30 - 17.45
Wednesday 30 March 16.30 - 17.45

Wednesday 6 April 16.30 - 17.45
Wednesday 20 April 16.30 - 17.45
Wednesday 27 April 16.30 - 17.45

Wednesday 4 May 16.30 - 17.45
Wednesday 11 May 16.30 - 17.45
Wednesday 18 May 16.30 - 17.45
Wednesday 25 May 16.30 - 17.45

Dedicated to children between the ages of 3 and 5.
Maximum number of participants: 8.
All the materials used are non-toxic.
A meeting with the parents is planned.

To register: info@iunoiuno.it